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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Auditory Processing
Kinesthetic
Combination
Cognition
2. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Accent
Prefix
ESL
Matthew Effect
3. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
SBOE
Latin layer of language
Reliability
4. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
CTOPP
IDEA
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
5. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Curriculum referenced tests
Frank Smith
Tactile
6. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
ESL
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Mathew Effect
Accommodation
7. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
James Hinshelwood
SBOE
NICHD
Criterion-Referenced Test
8. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Universal Screening
Impulsivity
Standardized test
Direct Instruction
10. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Standard Scores
WIATII
Accuracy
11. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Battery
VAKT
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
12. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Pre-English
Reliability
WIATII
13. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Greek layer of language
Three Layers of Language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Letter naming Chart
14. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
IDEA
Linguistic Method
Accent
Open Syllable
15. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Consonant
IDEA
The Norman Conquest
Phoneme
16. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Tilde
Visual Processing
Syllable
Expressive language
17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Multi-Sensory Approach
Vr
Academic Achievement Tests
18. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Six basic types of syllables
The Norman Conquest
Social language
ESL
19. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Breve
Vowel
Stanine Scores
Cognitive Assessment
20. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Syllable
Old English
Impulsivity
RTI
21. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Reliability
Syllable Instruction
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
22. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Criterion referenced tests
Expressive language
Sight Words
Percentile
23. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Battery
Accent
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 0
24. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Accent
Receptive language
Percentile/ percentile rank
25. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Comprehension
Reliability
Chall's Stage 5
Phonics approach
26. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
[-'le
Sound Symbol Association
Whole Language
Chall's Stage 4
27. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Syllable Instruction
Achievement test
Academic Achievement Tests
28. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Reading Comprehension Support
VV
Vowel
[-'le
29. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Joe Torgesen
Cedilla
Phonological Awareness
Rate
30. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Morpheme
Progress Monitoring
Auditory Processing
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
31. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Pre-English
The Norman Conquest
Norm-referenced tests
Direct Instruction
32. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
IEP
Phoneme
Standardized test
33. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
Phonological Awareness
34. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Social language
Vowel Digraph
Raw score
Open Syllable
35. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
MSLE
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Components of Reading Instruction
Standard deviation
36. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Open Syllable
Auditory Learners
Linguistic Method
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
37. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Middle English
Criterion referenced tests
Whole Language
38. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Derived Score
Cognitive Assessment
IEP
39. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Matthew Effect
Base Word
Receptive language
Orthography
40. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Joe Torgesen
James Hinshelwood
Chall's Stage 3
41. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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42. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Accent
Mastery level
Open Syllable
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
IDEA
Morphology
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
44. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
IMSLEC
Attention
Composite Score
Chall's Stage 1
45. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Kinesthetic
Diagnostic tests
Norm-Referenced Test
Sound Symbol Association
46. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
RTI
Rate
Auditory Processing
Texas Education Code 38.003
47. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Top-down Reading Approach
Breve
Morpheme
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
48. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Quadrigraph
Phonological Awareness
ADHD
Cognition
49. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Morphology
Mathew Effect
Derivative
VV
50. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
VV
Rate
Anna Gillingham
Adolf Kusmaul